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I think a lot of it is the need to be both exceptional and validated for being exceptional. So if I can aggregate a whole bunch of highfalutin ideas, and work out some kind of self-supporting circular logic to come up with a ”theory” or interpretation that’s new, I am therefore exceptional, a genius...

Hahahaha! What a nut job! She'd probably be considered a serviceable soul because she makes the BK ideas seem much more plausible. The Annunaki she mentions were the gods of ancient Sumeria (Mesopotamia, Babylon) and they feature in a text even older than the Rig Veda, the story of Gilgamesh. A good...

The most famous of the novels by Phillip Pullman is the ”The Golden Compass” ( also published as ”Northern Lights” in some places). It is in the first in a series called ”His Dark Materials” which sees a young child heroine, Lyra, who later has to find her way through portals to parallel universes t...

This is the next generation ruling by proxy while paying lip service to "hierarchy", which, BTW, literally means rule based on seniority

Like many so-called spiritual organisations, the BKs are so caught up with teaching ”the highest” morality they forget that anything high has to be built on something basic. You cannot ignore basic human decency, the golden rule found in all cultures - do unto others as you would have done to you - ...

a local survey conducted by social service organisations ... found that ... 30-40% willed substantial amounts of their estates to their carers, and often all of it. I should have gone on to say that many of these carers really did work long and hard caring for the person, often at all hours in emer...

Such manipulation of the elderly and attempts to acquire the property of the deceased has been going on since the concept of ”property” was invented! A venerated tradition to exploit the vulnerable venerable!!! The reason the Roman Catholic church brought in the rule of compulsory celibacy for all o...

There’s still a major fascination, hence market demand, for the exotic outer forms (appearances) of ”spirituality”. Take for example the recently deceased Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) who was one of those hugely instrumental in introducing eastern philosophical idea to popular culture in the 1960s...

Good old trick - know that those who are coming to you are open to what you have to say (they came because they want) and give examples of the various kinds of experiences such seekers would have had or know about, then you seem to them to be, like, wow, this guy knows about this stuff! He stole the...

It’s reported here on this forum somewhere. Maybe I heard it from someone and shared it here? Not sure. I remember it because it involved a guy whom I met and knew back in the early 1980s, his name was Gopal. I always distrusted him, always something sleazy and shifty about him. Like he ran some rac...

I remember many BKs taking cash to Madhuban. Often it was broken up and shared among a group of travellers i.e a number of people each taking smaller sums rather one person with a big lump sum, probably for legal reasons usually to do with how much someone can take out of a country rather than bring...

Very interesting point as that would leave none, as there is no yardstick for proof..none that I know of. How about this: Recruit a group of 10 desperately poor and hungry people, they will attend the experiment every day. Recruit a group of 10 believers from various religions. Recruit a group of 1...

Who is genuine and who is fake is a good question but even if a decent way to define them was found, India gets a lot of tourism and foreign exchange from "spiritual pilgrims" etc, and especially under Modi’s BJP, is a major part of it is ”identity”. Indeed, given the recent examples of bi...

Questioner : "I have definite spiritual ambitions. Must I not work for their fulfillment?" Nisargadatta : "No ambition is spiritual. All ambitions are for the sake of the ‘ I am .’ If you want to make real progress you must give up all idea of personal attainment. The ambitions of th...

Reads like the diary of a plantation owner from the days of the Raj. Maybe we should call them ”memsahib” instead of ”Sister"? The BKs and many groups (and individuals) like them have been sucked into what Teju Coles calls The White Saviour Industrial Complex”. From Wikipedia - " In essenc...